Why Appeal Court Refused Obi To Scan Election Materials

On Wednesday, the Appeal Court declined to accept Mr. Peter Obi’s request to scan and copy election papers from INEC’s database.

The three-member panel held that granting the order sought by obi will hamper the elections slated for Saturday.

The Justice Joseph Ikyegh-led panel faulted Obi and the Labour Party (LP) for repeating their request to be allowed to scan and make copies of the electoral materials in INEC’s possession.

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Further, the court held that granting the order will amount to tying down the hands of the electoral body and preventing it from carrying out the functions assigned to it by the 1999 constitution

The court ordered INEC on March 3 to allow the applicants to inspect and carry out digital forensic examination of all the electoral materials used in the conduct of the elections.

Also to avail them of the Certified True Copy, CTC, of result of the physical inspection of the BVAS.

The panel held that the request was earlier granted, adding that repeating the prayer amounted to an abuse of court process.

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INEC had insisted that the reconfiguration of the BVAS was necessary since they would be deployed for the next round of elections on Saturday.

The commission added that without a prompt variation of the order the court earlier granted to Obi and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, especially the aspect restraining it from tampering with information contained in the BVAS.